Along the way, they encounter Burton, now living as a blind hermit. Cannibals capture the members of the party, but before they can become dinner the jungle girl leads them to a passage that leads down off the plateau. This motivates Jose to stay with the party instead of striking out on his own to escape from the plateau.Īt one point, Malone and Jennifer are separated from the others and have a near death encounter with two battling dinosaurs. Roxton reveals that he had visited the plateau years before, and claims the plateau holds a bounty of diamonds. Roxton is mentioned several times in the diary. They discover a diary of a previous explorer, Burton White, who was lost on the plateau. Roxton argues with the others, and jealousies over Jennifer leads to a fistfight between Malone and Roxton. As the expedition proceeds, Malone chases a primitive jungle girl ( Vitina Marcus) through cobwebs to a giant spider. Also, in the group is a Zoological Society bigwig ( Richard Haydn), helicopter pilot Gomez ( Fernando Lamas) and sidekick Jose Costa ( Jay Novello).ĭuring the first night on the plateau, a dinosaur wrecks the helicopter. John) and son David join the group at the head of the Amazon. The publisher's adventurous daughter, Jennifer ( Jill St. This expedition group includes big game hunter Lord John Roxton ( Michael Rennie), newsman Ed Malone ( David Hedison) whose publisher advances $100,000 to pay for the expedition.
Much to Challenger's dismay, he has attracted a few very unscientific people to join him on his second journey to the Amazon. Professor Challenger ( Claude Rains), a celebrated biologist and anthropologist, reports to the London Zoological Society that he has discovered living specimens of supposedly extinct animals, including dinosaurs, on an expedition to the Amazon Basin and up a barely known plateau.